The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS,

1uIO6 LeC6ubiy-ttIIlN6Q OWGQ1Su women
have formally declared their intention to
become citizens of the United States, and
have entered homesteads in Sawyer County. !
4 remarkable wedding was solemnized
the other day at Lynn, Clark County, the
groom being John W. Groesbeck, Sr., over
eighty years of age, while the bride, Miss
Mary Tymerson, a maiden lady, is but few
years younger. DIR Groesbeck was an early
settler in that portion of the country and
the lady he took for his bride is his third
wife
Martin Gleason, boy of fourteen years,
living at Lancaster, shot himself the other
day.
Frank jain, blind man, committed sui
eide at Milwaukee tie other day by drown
ing. He tried to buy poison and revolver.
but the persons having these means of sui
eide for sale refused to sell His little
brother, who always accompanied him, led
him out on the Government pier, at the
blind mans request and was Mortified
witness of his act
While W. W. Cannon was eating dinner
recently at the residence of R. R. Brown, in
Edgerton, a partridge few through a large
pane of glass in a window and struck him
in the back with great force.
The expiration of the law for killing deer
having occurred few days ago rush of
hunters from every direction is reported to
the woods north of Eau Claire for the pur~
pose of having their sport and profit before
the Indians get in their destructive work
with the game. Deer are reported unusu-
ally plentiful this season, and can be easily
captured while enjoying their pasturage.
fary
dwelling of J. D. Williams, at MilIston,
Clark County, which destroyed the building
and furniture, the little nest-egg of money
that had been laid away, and injured the
wife so badly as to make her incapable of
walking. They have four children and all
are destitute.
William Henderson, a saloon-keeper at
Armstrong, Fond du Lac County, shot Law
renee Cosgrove through the body with
rifle few days ago, killing him almost in
stantly. Cosgrove made the remark that he
guessed he would whip Henderson, and
Henderson coolly picked up his gun and shot
him.
1t is estimated that the recent rise in the
Black river brought IS, 000 900 feet of logs
down to La Crosse
new contagious disease appeared few
days ago among horses in the vicinity of
Waterville, Waukesha County, which was
causing considerable fatality and alarming
the farmers. All efforts to cure the malady
had proved unsuccessful
The Nashotah Theological Seminary COM
menced its forty-sixth annual session few
days ago.
There is a family of boys in Madison who
call their father Sitting Bull and their
mother Gustav. They were thus nicknamed
when the valiant General was Waging his
war on the Indians who finally ambushed
him
ring adder, one of the most poisonous
of snakes, was recently captured at Apple
ton and placed in alcohol
An Albino squirrel was captured in Bar
ron County recently by 7. ]. Stockman,
which is natural curiosity 1t is of the
red squirrel species, but is pure white, not a
colored hair appearing, and is bright and
clipper, promising to tame easily.
In the circuit court at Green Bay the other
day the attorney for H. E. Jones, the ex-
banker of De Pere, paid his forfeited bail
bond of $4,000. Jones was convicted Of
receiving deposits when he knew the bank
to be msolvent, and instead of appearing
AO1 eSllutuCo u6u W W lunlp6B.
Another important industry, in the shape
of new sash, door and blind factory. has
been completed in Eau Claire at cost of
$125, 900, which will afford employment to
upward of one hundred operatives.
1t is said that Mr. Dungey, of Lisbon.
Waukesha County, has a cat that Matched
seven eggs and looked after the chickens
with hen-like affection and care.
laborer named Olson quarreled at Beef
Slough recently with a companion. Olson
rushed at the other with a knife; the latter
met him with thrust from pike pole, and
the pike sank deep into the forehead of Oh
son, killing him.
A horse belonging to Elmer Putney, of
Waukesha, ran away recently and reached
the Wisconsin Central tracks as a freight
train was passing A fiat car was in front
OF the frightened animal, and the horse
jumped from the road to the car-deck, car
rying the front wheels of the wagon with it.
There are classes formed in Hebrew.
Spanish and Sanscrit this term at the State
University at Madison These studies are
at present optional.
J. G.. Hoelzet, convicted at Milwaukee of
attempting to poison his uncle, William
Imprisonment
G. T. Eldred, of Wausau, has been re-
tanned to commence legal proceedings
against parties who sold stock in iron mines
they did not own.
Miss Ida Nobel, of Green Bay, was quite
seriously injured recently by a runaway
while visiting friends at Escanaba. Her
under jaw was broken in two places.
John Scroggin (colored) pleaded guilty at
Madison the other day to assaulting Mrs.
Mary Aldey, a German woman, and was
sentenced to fifteen years in Waupan peni-
Tertiary, with two days of each month in
solitary confinement.
Samuel Fethers, the most prominent
wholesale liquor dealer in Southern Wiscon-
sin, fell dead of heart-disease at his home in
GAINESVILLE few days ago.
Lightning recently struck barn belong
ing to Joseph Tremaine near Oconomowoc,
and entirely destroyed it, The loss was
about So, 000
This years fair in Crawford County was
failure, owing to heavy rains and bad roads.
c. n. Nolan, of Pittsville Wood County.
has lately found a peculiar creature which
seems to be devOuring the late potatoes ON
his farm. 1t is fully two inches long, over
an inch in circumference in the middle, and
is about the shape of a cigar. 1t has very
much the appearance of a chrysalis, but
about half the length, is quite active, and
in the joints of the horny belts which sur
round its body it will clutch pin with a
firm grasp.
w. E. Fernald and Miss Kate Nolan, first
assistant physician and matron, respective
ly, at the State Insane Hospital in Madison,
resigned recently and were married DE-
Fernald has accepted the superintendency
of the school for the feeble-minded in Bos-
ton
Loren Cheney, a prominent farmer of
Rock County, cut his throaG and jumped
into a creek near his home at Emerald
Grove early the other morning He had
been eccentric for some time The day was
his twenty-ffth wedding anniversary and
great preparations had been made to cele-
brate the event He leaves wife and six
children.
A Minnesota hunter claimed to have killed
six bears recently out of possible seven
near Eau Claire
l. J. Woolley, a well-known lawyer of
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